David Holmes / Best 1996—2006

David Holmes was passionate about recording film score. Having played enough with dance music in the nineties as a remixer and DJ, he caught the trend of slowing down and recorded two soundtrack albums as a joke: This film’s crap let’s slash the seats and Let’s get killed. I agree with Holmes about the first one. David himself talked about the last one. At the age of 17, the Irishman flew to New York, where, staggering around as a result of something he took, he walked around the city of dreams, recording everyone who caught his eye. So, he went to look for people in the ghetto and found them. He had to run away from eight big guys who coveted his microphone. Part of these interviews, by the way, ten years later, were used for the album Let’s get killed. Hence the name.

The humorous music for unreleased films turned into a real commission. He was noticed and recommended to director Steven Soderbergh, who was shooting Out of Sight at that time. Later, he did Ocean’s Eleven, where Holmes showed real development, and so could not get away from working on the rest of the heist trilogy.

“And it’s like that with all my records; they come out and they’re pretty well-received and do nothing,” laughs David. “You make records, they do nothing, but then eventually they find a home and get a second life in cinema or television.” In the noughties, it was played everywhere, but few people knew its name, much less the author. Today, an hour-and-a-half mix is dedicated to it.